Publications on Thailand

Monographs 

Constitutional Bricolage : Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy versus the Rule of Law, Oxford : Hart Publishing (2021) available here

Le constitutionnalisme thaïlandais au prisme de ses emprunts étrangers : une analyse de la fonction royale [Contribution à l’étude de la souveraineté], Paris : LGDJ (2018), available here

Idées reçues sur la Thaïlande, Paris : Cavalier Bleu (2022, 2018) available here & Les Thaïlandais, Paris: Ateliers Henry Dougier (2018) available here 

Les Chemises rouges de Thaïlande, Paris/Bangkok: IRASEC (2013) available here

Edited volumes 

The Politics of (No) Elections, White Lotus Press (2016), available here

Journal Articles 

[PDF] “A Constitutional Ethnography of Monarchy : Buddhist Kingship, ‘Granted Constitutionalism’ and  Royal State Ceremonies in Thailand”, Asian Journal of Law and Society (2022) available here

[PDF] “Democratic Breakdown through Lawfare by Constitutional Courts: The Case of Thailand”, Pacific Affairs (2022) available here

[PDF] “Self-Enslavement as Resistance to the State? Siamese Early Modern Laws on Slavery”, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (2021) available here

[PDF] “On Blasphemy in a Buddhist Kingdom : Thai Lèse-Majesté Laws” Buddhism, Law and Society (2019) available here

[PDF] “Thailand in 2018 : Military Dictatorship under Royal Command” Southeast Asian Affairs (2019) available here

[PDF]“Buddhist Constitutionalism in Thailand, When Rajadhamma supersedes the Constitution”, Asian Journal of Comparative Law (2018) available here

[PDF]“Le crime de lèse-majesté, un blasphème ? Réflexions à partir du cas thaïlandais”, Revue Internationale de Droit comparé (2018) available here

[PDF]“Les rapports dangereux entre justice constitutionnelle et transition démocratique, l’exemple de la Thaïlande” Revue du Droit Public (2017), available here

[PDF]“Thailand’s Deep State, Royal Power and the Constitutional Court (1997-2016)”, Journal of Contemporary Asia (2016) available here

[PDF] Comprendre l’instabilité politique thaïlandaise : constitutionnalisme et coups d’État“, Politique étrangère (2014) available here

[PDF] “Réconciliation nationale et amnistie en Thaïlande”, Péninsule (2013),  available here

Book chapters 

[PDF] “Establishing the King as the Source of the Constitution: Shifting “Bricolaged” Narratives of Buddhist Kingship from Siam to Thailand”, in Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law (eds. Tom Ginsburg and Benjamin Schonthal) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), available here

[PDF] “Defensive Populism in Tutelary Democracies: The Case of Thaksin Shinawatra vs the Deep State in Thailand”, in Contemporary Populists in Power (eds. Alain Dieckhoff, Christophe Jaffrelot and Elise Massicard) New York: Palgrave MacMillan (2022), available here

[PDF] “A History of the Thai Lèse-Majesté Law”, in Thai Legal History: from Traditional to Modern Law (eds. Andrew Harding and Munin Pongsapan) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2021), available here

[PDF] “Thailand’s 1932 Constitution, matrix of constitutional instability”, in Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia (eds. Bui Ngoc Son and Kevin Tan) Singapore: Hart Publishing (2019) available here 

[PDF] “Le cas thaïlandais : Thaksin, un populisme de réaction” in L’Enjeu Mondial, Populismes au pouvoir (Alain Dieckhoff, Christophe Jaffrelot, Elise Massicard), Paris : Presses de Sciences Po (2019), available here

[PDF] “Thailand’s Illiberal Constitutionalism”, in Politics and Constitutions in Southeast Asia (eds. Bjorn Dressel and Marco Bunte), Routledge (2017) – available here

[PDF]“The Constitutional Court in the 2016 Constitutional Draft”, Blooming Years (ed. Pavin Chachavalpongpun), Kyoto Press (2016) available here

[PDF] “Thailand’s Deep State and the Constitutional Court” in Assessing Thailand’s Authoritarian Turn (ed. Kevin Hewison), Routledge (2016) available here

[PDF]“La crise politique thaïlandaise”, in L’ Asie en 2015 -2016, (ed. Jean-Luc Racine) La Documentation française (2015) available here

Working Papers 

“Authoritarian Policing and Democratization : the case of Thailand”, New York University Center for Global Affairs Working Paper series (2020) available here

“Towards a Theory of Dual Constitutionalism : Reflections from the Thai case-study”, Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore (2017), available here

Op-eds, blog posts and online articles 

“La Thaïlande à l’épreuve de la covid-19: le roi, l’armée et la Chine contre la jeunesse”, Questions Internationales (2022), available here

“Désirs de révolution à Bangkok: en Thaïlande, les jeunes face à la monarchie et à l’armée”, Le Monde Diplomatique (2021), available here

“A Military Dictatorship like No Other”, New York Times (2019), available here

“How Thailand Became the World´s Last Military Dictatorship” The Atlantic (2019), available here

“The Thai Constitutional Court, a major threat to Thai Democracy”, Blog of the International Association of Constitutional Law (2019), available here

“What is the role of a Constitutional Court in a Military Dictatorship, New Mandala (2019) available here 

[PDF]“La Thaïlande de Rama X, une dictature sous patronage royal”, Diplomatie (2019) available here

“Thailand’s Deepening Authoritarian Rule”, East Asia Forum (2018) available here 

“Thailand’s Supreme Court and the Prosecution of Thailand’s Successive Prime Ministers”, Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (2017), available here 

“Seeking more power, Thailand’s new king is moving the country away from being a constitutional monarchy”, The Conversation (2017) available here

“Thailand’s next king and a new Constitution”, The Conversation (2016)  available here

[PDF]“La Thaïlande depuis le coup d’Etat”, Diplomatie (2016) available here

“Le cycle coup d’Etat-Constitution-élections-coup d’Etat se perpétue avec l’aide des Thaïlandais eux-mêmes” Le Monde (2016) available here

“Hegemonic Self-Preservation attempt by the Thai Army (the Agony of the Thai Deep State) : The 2014 Military Coup d’état in Thailand”, International Perspectives (2014) available here

“Thailand’s Juristocracy”, New Mandala (2014) available here 

“Thaïlande : mobilisation de la dernière chance pour les royalistes”, Le Monde (2013) available here

“Réconciliation nationale et amnisties en Thaïlande”, Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (2013) available here

Archival work

“Pré-inventaire des “Papiers Pridi Panomyong” for the Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS Lyon (2020), available here 

“The Genesis of the Thai Constitutional Court, Elements from the Archives of the 1997 and 2007 Constitution-Drafting Committees” for the German-Southeast Asian Centre for Excellence in Public Policy & Good governance, Thammasat University (2014).